At present, the broad sense of commercial western kitchen equipment industry has not only refers to the kitchen utensils used in western kitchens or western restaurants, including a wider range, mainly divided into commercial food machinery, commercial kitchen utensils, washing equipment, refrigeration and preservation, conditioning table and other five categories of products.

Overview of the development of commercial western kitchen industry

The commercial western kitchen equipment industry continues to develop with the improvement of industrialization and mechanization, which originated in Western countries such as Europe. Commercial western kitchen equipment products are closely related to people's lives, and the application range is very wide, because Westerners are accustomed to separate meals and have high requirements for food processing, the demand for related products such as processed food and stored food is strong, which also stimulates the development of commercial western kitchen equipment industry. The early commercial western kitchen equipment industry mainly refers to the kitchen utensils used in Western kitchens or western restaurants, including food processing, cooking, cooking, conditioning and other products.

Second, commercial Western food kitchen equipment development overview and trend analysis

In the past 30 years, due to the sustained high-speed growth of China's economy and the worldwide industrial restructuring, the manufacturing industry has gradually transferred to China, which has promoted the development of the domestic commercial western kitchen equipment industry, promoted the export of commercial western kitchen equipment products, and greatly improved the technical level, process manufacturing, quality, specifications and other aspects of commercial western kitchen equipment manufacturers. In China, after the commercial western kitchen equipment industry enters the Chinese market, the application range and variety of products are more abundant, whether it is Chinese restaurants or more and more types of western restaurants, the demand for commercial western kitchen equipment products has always maintained strong.

Commercial western kitchen equipment industry has nearly a hundred years of development history in foreign countries, product quality and technical level is relatively high, domestic commercial western kitchen equipment manufacturing enterprises are still concentrated in the low-end market, most enterprises are smaller, fewer high-end brands. In recent years, foreign commercial western kitchen equipment enterprises have gradually entered the Chinese market through joint ventures and wholly-owned factories. It is expected that during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, foreign brands will enter the Chinese market faster and faster through mergers, new construction, shares and other ways. At the same time, some domestic enterprises with advanced production equipment, strong product research and development and design capabilities, strong financial strength, and large scale will gradually increase their market share in the competition and establish excellent brands.

Third, the development trend of commercial western kitchen industry

1. Diversity of product quality

"Safety, health, energy saving, intelligence, environmental protection" has become the development theme of the 21st century kitchen revolution, and has broadened new ideas for the development of commercial western kitchen equipment industry. The increasingly serious environmental pollution and lack of resources in the world make the problem of green environmental protection more and more widespread attention. The awareness of environmental protection and energy saving contained in commercial western kitchen equipment products has become the focus of consumers' attention, and the product structure has evolved in the direction of beauty, fashion, environmental protection, low energy consumption and intelligence. Low value-added products will suffer from the impact of the domestic industry and deeper competition.

2. Application of new technology

The wide application of high technology in the commercial western kitchen equipment industry has led to a qualitative leap in the production mode of enterprises. The application of computer technology and information technology has changed the traditional concept and production organization mode of commercial western kitchen equipment manufacturing industry. The original production mode of commercial western kitchen equipment production enterprises has been unable to meet the requirements of industry competition, the timely introduction of equipment, updated concepts, updated technology, and the introduction of intelligent manufacturing, virtual manufacturing and other concepts in the production organization mode has been the consensus of commercial western kitchen equipment enterprises. Information technology helps to optimize business processes, reduce management costs, and gain an advantage in the competition.

3. Product upgrading speed is accelerated

The varieties of commercial western kitchen equipment are being updated faster and faster, and the time for upgrading is getting shorter and shorter. Compared with traditional products, the average best-selling life of modern kitchen equipment is getting shorter and shorter, which poses challenges to the production of enterprises, requiring enterprises to provide more intelligent and more environmentally friendly products, and also provides new opportunities for the further development of enterprises.

With the improvement of residents' income level, the acceleration of urban life rhythm and the change of consumption concept, the proportion of dining out and traveling will increase, the improvement of consumption level and the upgrading of consumption structure will stimulate the development of domestic service industries such as catering industry and hotel industry. In the future, with the further deepening of internationalization, there will be more foreign catering enterprises stationed in our country, the continuous and rapid development of catering industry and hotel industry will drive the demand for commercial western kitchen equipment industry.

Fourth, the new development trend of commercial western kitchen equipment industry

The commercial western kitchen equipment industry is becoming more and more standardized, and the characteristics of scale, brand, high-end and specialization are becoming increasingly prominent. As the country's requirements for product standards, health, safety, energy saving and environmental protection continue to increase, and consumers are more in pursuit of product personalization and quality, the threshold of the industry is getting higher and higher. Lack of brand influence, weak comprehensive strength of the enterprise will gradually be eliminated by the market, the concentration of the entire industry will continue to improve, the industry will have innovative ability to scale, branding, high-end and professional direction. This trend will help commercial kitchen enterprises with high brand awareness, high-end market positioning and professional operation to expand their market share.

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